Seclusion with Grandmother and Foreign Worker
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Question
Is there an issue of seclusion with a grandmother who has Alzheimer's, and there is a foreign worker with her?
Answer
There is a prohibition of seclusion, and the simple solution is to give a key to one of the neighbors who can enter from time to time.
Source
The Talmud, Tractate Kiddushin, page 81b: "A person may be secluded with his sister and live with his mother and daughter. When this was said before Shmuel, he said: It is forbidden to be secluded with all relatives mentioned in the Torah, and even with an animal."
Halacha: The Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer, Chapter 22, Paragraph 1, permits a person to be secluded with his daughter, and in Bach, Paragraph 1, it is written that all descendants, like a daughter, are permitted for seclusion, and the Pitchei Teshuva, Comment 2, brings that there are disagreements, and it is customary like Bach that seclusion with a grandmother or grandfather with a granddaughter is permitted.
However, here there is seclusion with the foreign worker, and the later authorities disagreed whether the permission of "his wife guards him" applies also to other relatives or not, and since the grandmother has Alzheimer's, she certainly is not aware of what is happening around her and does not guard, and there is a problem of seclusion with the worker.